[Collectio peregrinationum in Indiam occidentalem]. [3]. Navigatio In Brasiliam Americae Qua Auctoris Navigatio, quæ memoriæ prodenda in mari viderit, Brasiliensium victus & mores ... describuntur: adjectus insuper Dialogus eorum lingua conscriptus. A Ioanne Lerio Burgundu Gallicè primùm scripta, deinde latinitate donata ... per Theodorum de Bry Leo

The publisher, goldsmith and engraver Theodore de Bry (1528 – 1598) set up a publishing house and a copper engraving workshop in Frankfurt in 1578. From 1590 to 1634 he published one of the earliest and most important travel reports about the Caribbean and the South-East Asian Archipelago in a number of volumes, the Collectiones peregrinationum in Indiam Orientalem et Indiam Occidentalem. Following his death, his sons and, after them, Matthäus Merian, continued the work until 1634 with a total of over 1,500 engravings.
The illustrations in the present volume on Brazil are regarded as amongst the earliest pictorial records of the indigenous population of America from the European point of view. Thus the indigenous population is tormented by devils to such an extent that their conversion became a Christian duty.
As a Calvinist with a Protestant orientation, however, de Bry opposed the Catholic Church and above all cast a very negative light on Spain's role in the conquest of America. The Austrian National Library owns a number of complete editions.
The copy of Navigatio In Brasiliam Americae with coloured engravings is a separate volume that describes the customs, religious rites, nutrition and medicine of the cannibal Tupinamba and the vegetation and fauna of Brazil. The author was the Calvinist minister Jean de Léry (ca .1536 – ca. 1613), who between 1556 and 1558 travelled and described in particular the Brazilian coastal regions.